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Ernest Leonard White

Ernest Leonard White

Male 1910 - 1999  (88 years)

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  • Name Ernest Leonard White  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Birth 10 Sep 1910  Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Aug 1999  Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Burial Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE,   b. 1885, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1973, Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)  (Father) 
    MARY ELLA BRAWLEY,   b. 18 Jun 1851, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1917  (Age 65 years)  (Grandmother) 
    Person ID I12426  1794 BARLOW-GAWF/GOFF (US-NC-WAK / US-TN-HEN) I-FTA50669
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Father JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE,   b. 1885, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1973, Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Mother ARTIE GOFF,   b. Abt 1886, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1971 (Age 85 years)
    Other Partners: David R. Townsell  m. 16 Oct 1921  
    Marriage 10 Sep 1905  Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Family ID F220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 MAUREEN ELIZABETH TERRY,   b. 21 Feb 1910, Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1989, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jun 1932  Gibson Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 14] 
    Children 
     1. ERNEST Terry White,   b. 22 Jun 1933, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Sep 1996, Cape Canaveral, Brevard, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    ▻ SANDRA Arlene Vickers  m. 9 Dec 1958;   Linda Ann Silk  m. 29 Dec 1972;   Barbara Breedlove
     2. David Edward White,   b. 11 Apr 1935, San Diego, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 2007, Montgomery, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    ▻ Marge Adcock  m. 9 Dec 1954
     3. JAMES Patrick White,   b. 29 Mar 1944, Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 2016, Orlando, Brevard, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    ▻ Karen;   Susan Tyndall  m. 19 Apr 1979;   Sandra Alexander
    Family ID F214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Family 2 Ulma Reen Shumack,   b. 15 Jun 1917, Excel, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jul 2010, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years) 
    Marriage 26 May 1990  Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Divorce 2 Mar 1993  Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorced 18 Jun 1996  Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3640  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Home in 1920: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee Image: 767 (probably on Church street), Near baseball field
      Jess F White 34
      Ozie White 34
      Ernest White 9
      Earl White 6
      Lom B Loomis 60 boarder
      (same page as Water KEETON's family, on Rowlett)

      At Pearl Harbor with wife and two oldest children during the bombing on December 7. They left Christmas morning. Ernest was then a chief yeoman and had been stationed in Hawaii for 2 years.

      At my Grandmother's funeral I wrote down when Grandfather was remembering. Following are those notes: A few months after I started doing genealogy again, I answered a query on a Decatur County Board on the Internet from Ben Rinehold who was researching TUCKERS AND WHITES. Ben remembered when my Grandparents came to visit and told me about that before I found these notes. In August of 2000 Great Aunt Ethel sent me some old pictures. She also recounted the story of going on my Grandparents honeymoon. She enclosed a picture with Harry Lee Nowlin, who was Doug's uncle, another cousin I met through the Internet, on the Weakley County Board.

      Notes from conversation with Ernest White, 11/89, at his wife's funeral.

      Jesse was married two times to "Miss Ozzie". First time she went with some other man. They ran a store in Medina. Grandpa (Ernest L. White) heard from "Mr. Terry" about the break up so he got a leave. Went AWOL for about 45 days and went with family, including Jesse, to Washington to see his sister's family (Tucker). He and grandma had been engaged before that but split up. Went back to Navy and served some brig time.

      Went to Medina for a visit and Waters (married to Grandma's sister Alba May) told him Grandma was seeing another man so he and Waters went and got her.

      Got engaged the second time in a cotton patch (the scene Grandma painted on a frying pan) and married soon thereafter.

      Went to California and took Ethel with them on their honeymoon.

      Jesse's father was a blacksmith.

      Artie Goff White Townsell was uneducated and hot tempered. Her father was a farmer. He died when Grandfather was very young.

      Grandfather and Grandmother lived next to each other in Medina.
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      The Mirror-Exchange, Milan, Tennessee, Tuesday, September 21, 1999
      Medina News by Joel Bradbury
      Medina native Ernest White joined the Navy well before WWII and he was married to Maurine Terry. On Dec. 7, 1941 while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Maurine had to take her young sons and flee to a field in order to escape the bombs. When he retired, they came back home to Medina for awhile. Ernest was active in community affairs and once ran for mayor of Medina. Later they moved to Florida and Maurine died several years ago. Ernest died Aug. 28 in Florida. His sister, Ethel White Meals lives near Humboldt. Maurine's sisters, Alba May Keaton & Lillie Winston Spirakis now live in Pensacola. (copy provided by Jane Barrett Mayo)
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      rank in Navy was lt.
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      Footnote.com
      Publication Title: Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls
      Content Source: NARA (Bureau of Navy Personnel)
      Ship Name: Phelps Ship Type: DD Hull Number: 360 Ship Type Full: Destroyer
      Year: 1939 Month: September Day: 30 Page Number: 23
      Document Type: Report of Changes
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      Per his son James Patrick White via e-mail 12/7/2008 "Dad enlisted in 1927 in Nashville. Could be a re-enlistment. Though the time seems out of sequence as he had uninterrupted service from 1927 except in 1934 when went to Tennessee to open a restaurant which did not make it."

      Fold3 has his service number as 295 10/90 and he was on the Pearl Harbor Muster Roles at the 14th Naval District (Staff Headquarters) for quarter ending 31 Dec 1941 as CY(PA) [chief yeoman], date of enistment 18 Sep 1937, date first received on board 26 Feb 1941. A listed month ending 31 May 1941 with rating as CY (AA)

  • Sources 
    1. [S567] Florida Marriage Indexes, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001.
      Online publication - Ancestry.com. Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data -
    2. Florida Department of Health. Florida Marriage Index, 1927-2001. Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida.
    3. Marriages records from various counties located in county courthouses and/or on microfilm at the Family History Library..

    4. [S131] U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1.
      Birth date: 10 Sep 1910
      Birth place:
      Residence date: 1977
      Residence place: Pensacola, FL

    5. [S120] 1940 United States Federal Census.
      Birth date: abt 1911 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1 Apr 1940 Residence place: San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

    6. [S142] Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002.

    7. [S223] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.

    8. [S568] U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010.

    9. [S1] 1920 United States Federal Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1739; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 40.

    10. [S101] U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current, The Jackson Sun; Publication Date: 7 Mar 1971; Publication Place: Jackson, Tennessee, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/284363307/?article=52d5d50d-1b06-4b4e-8395-5346f073e95b&focus=0.73643893,0.3735263,0.85366464,0.49807426&xid=3355.

    11. [S3] 1940 United States Federal Census, Year: 1940; Census Place: San Diego, San Diego, California; Roll: m-t0627-00452; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 62-91.

    12. [S160] 1950 United States Federal Census, National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: San Diego, San Diego, California; Roll: 1621; Page: 25; Enumeration District: 72-226.

    13. [S417] Florida, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001.

    14. [S112] Goff, James Edward.
      citing infomration from Mrs. Leverene Shannon that he received in 1995

    15. [S109] Early Marriage Records (1869-1921) of Decatur County, Tennessee, p. 96.

    16. [S237] James Patrick White.